Vol 2 Chapter 237 (1/2)
Chapter 237: Damp Firewood and Cheap Shots
The sword tip buried itself deep into Xiao En’s left shoulder for an instant before being pulled out, trailed by a streae, even the amount of blood in Xiao En’s body was visibly less than that of a younger person
Friar He, with his sword across his chest, floated back!
Xiao En sat on the ground, his withered right hand holding onto a branch as thick as one’s forearm Before Friar He’s swordup his left shoulder, struck the branch down hard at Friar He’s shi+n frole
The front end of the branch had been s hoerful the blow had been
Feeling a sharp pain, Friar He’s already pale face turned even whiter While his right hand still steadily held onto his sword, his left leg started to shake
With his ninth-ranked ht it would be easy to kill a severely-weakened old h that oldyears ago, Friar He believed he had made adequate preparations It was now clear, however, that the old ined
Coughing, Xiao En said, ”My legs were broken by that brat Fan, so I had to land a hit on your leg, even if I failed to break it—”
Before Xiao En finished, Friar He attacked again His sword on around Xiao En, as trapped sitting on the ground Now Friar He had co his opponent Instead, he becarandmaster
Friar He’s swordson, was completely different froht to hiner north of the mountains While some parts were diluted, it s, which benefited hireatly
Xiao En, on the other hand, only had a stick, and he was unable to an toout occasionally, forcing Friar He back But Friar He began to arouse his zhenqi, filling the air with a buzzing sound Ultimately, that stick in Xiao En’s hand could not hold
The sword and the stick clashed, with the latter was shaved down into a rain of slivers
Xiao En reached out, grabbed another stick, and jabbed diagonally to the right, intercepting Friar He’s deadly strike
Xiao En had brought with him a bundle of firewood However, he would eventually run out of those damp branches
Some time passed, and the tean to cast down its , his tattered shi+rt covered in slashes On his chest were some deep wounds But the oldpale
Around Xiao En, the ground was covered by a dense layer of fly wings and legs Those insects had been drawn by the scent of blood, only to be sucked into the torrent of sword strikes and cut to pieces
Friar He stood about five steps away froht hand, holding onto his sword, finally started to tremble He didn’t have an easy time either; strikes fros and gave hily, the areas around those wounds were embedded by wooden splinters
”Coulped, not expecting the oldthat Xiao En was almost finished, and that the expected man from Southern Qi was still nowhere to be seen, Friar He finally called out his coave a look at the new ene whelps He wants this old man to lose face”
The newly-appeared foe approached In his hands were a pair
of curved knives Terrifyingly, the knife blades were covered in many thin spines; they looked like Friar He’s wounds
He silently saluted Xiao En and said, ”Mister Xiao, under His Majesty’s strict order, I could notToday, with your escape, I am forced to do this Mister Xiao, I hope you understand”
Xiao En laughed coldly, ”So it turns out Ku He’s disciples also learned his bluffs; I though as much You pretend to be all honorable on the surface, but deep down you are as wicked as can be, only looking to kill me Why pretend to be so innocent?”
This new ene Tao, Ku He’s head disciple and the e Xiao En speak badly of his master, he wasted no more words and crossed his wrists The two curved knives in his hands beca towards Xiao En’s head!